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JP
Senior Member

since 1999-05-25

Posts 1343
Loomis, CA

0 posted 1999-05-26 11:55 AM

Malevolent shade,
why dost thou pursue me?
Violent, spectral beast,
reeking with death's stench.
Am I the only one to fight you?

In our eternal battle,
not once have I escaped,
your sinewy blizzard clutch.
Wrest briefly from thine claw,
only to again be grasped by mine heel.
Fighting ever. Futility in fleeing.

Never to remove thine grunge,
from inside mine head.
Thine presence sickens me,
ye of many names;
anger, spite, envy, despair.

Your putrescence creeps always,
touching filth upon any I love.
Thou dost grapple with me,
in my waking dreams.
Sitting upon my labored chest,
in my fright-soaked nights.

Darkness be thy greeting,
horror be thy laugh.
For ages beyond my knowing,
you have death-walked,
seething within me, waiting.

Are ye controlled by my might?
Hardly so. Merely allowing me
but brief repreive,
to flit upon joy.
Only to make thy return,
more vile by compare.

Eternal dregs of hate,
I spit in thine eye.
For I, humanity, shall strive,
to gain final conquest,
in this forever fight.

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Cogito, ergo sum
JP

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Nan

Administrator

Member Seraphic

since 1999-05-20

Posts 21191
Cape Cod Massachusetts USA

1 posted 1999-05-26 12:39 PM

I think - Therefore, I am....

Illegitimi non carburundum est
Is that how you say it? If not, I can edit now.... hehe.....

[This message has been edited by Nan (edited 05-26-99).]

Red Letter
Member

since 1999-05-24

Posts 85
Allentown, PA

2 posted 1999-05-26 06:32 PM

Wow... Awesome. I know you told me that you write your darkest work when you are most satisfied in your life... should I take this as a good sign? ; )

luv
me

Sunshine

Administrator

Member Empyrean

since 1999-06-25

Posts 63354
Listening to every heart

3 posted 1999-08-13 02:04 PM

JP, this takes on new meaning for me as I have watched you evolve through the forum pages. I look at this in a whole and different light, and I think it is time to bring it back to the forefront. Keep teaching through your challenges, Kind Sir.

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Sunshine
Words will always express our feelings true. ~~~ KRJ
Look, then, into thine heart, and write ~~~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

~one voice~
Senior Member

since 1999-07-08

Posts 664
Billings, MT USA

4 posted 1999-08-13 03:38 PM

Excellent work, JP! I truly enjoyed this piece. Ah, but the rapture of what we do to ourselves, eh?

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~onevoice~

"She looked at her life
like lines, never-ending,
constantly forming,
reforming and bending."

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